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Airbrushing

The Madonna one looks like a mother/daughter picture comparison. At what age do they think you can have wrinkles show??
 
^^Never. That's the only answer one can give. That's why they airbrush your face into a mask. That's why older male actors can have "character" with grey hair and wrinkles, but female actors are over the hill by 35. The lament in Hollywood by femals actors is that there are no good roles being offered to them after a "certain" age. They are held to a higher standard than male actors. You can see Bruce Willis in action films, but unless it is an English production, you aren't going to see a female actor of comparable age in any box office offerings. Magazines will airbrush because they want to seel magazines and they give an unrealistic view of how woman should look.
 
Why do they still refer to it as "airbrushing" when in reality it's a complete photoshop overhaul. Airbrushing used to refer to doctored photos where only the skin was brushed up to even the coloring. Now, it's some ambiguous term that includes, cellulite removal, spare tire deflation, thigh thinning, boob enlargements, and deleting frizzy hairs. Let's just call these what they are: shopped.
 
What movie has she been made the star? What television series has she been offered wherein she is the lead and not the support? It is safe to praise her in magazines because of her age, but not to star. And if you look carefully at any magazine cover she graces, hen you will see that the real Betty White is not the same as the airbrushed magazine Betty White.

Betty White has fantastic comedic background in television series. But, because she became the media darling for a brief period of time, she has been seen in commercials and guest roles. At least TPTB recognized her talents, even if they only used her because of her brief idolization by younger audiences (males 18-30). But I doubt very much that anyone in Hollywood thought about giving her a starring role in a movie as they do to older male actors. Remember, she was ignored for years. Where was the media attention then? Just because she became popular again when she hit her 80s/90s only means she is the exception and not the rule.
 
Starring role in a new TV show: Hot in Cleveland
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1583607/

She's been roasted on Comedy Central.
She's all over the place.

Several other older women just don't get into the limelight much any more. Still, there's Jane Fonda, Joan Rivers, Judi Dench, and a few others I'm too tired to think of. Hell, before she died Phyllis Diller made a routine of making fun of her age. If you watch the movie Grandma's Boy, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight, and Doris Roberts all have fun lampooning older women.

As with all things where there's a difference in genetics and one genetic trait seems to be portrayed in a bad way, it's really only as bad as one wants to make it. Older women in Hollywood and on TV are still going strong.

We're not living in Logan's Run where once female stars pass the age of 65, the jewel in their hand lights up and they're carted away to be euthanized. That shit only happens on MTV.
 
Oh, I forgot Meryl Streep in the dozen or so movies she's had a lead or starring role in in the last decade.

Then there's the whole Jamie Lee Curtis Activia thing... It's one thing to embrace aging, it's another thing to endorse poop-yogurt.
 
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